In the past year alone the stand-up, actor and author has went out on a comedy tour, performed eight sell-out shows at The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, opened a play he wrote in New Jersey, appeared in a movie and has made regular appearances on “The Daily Show.”

Quick witted, well informed, grumpy and always with an opinion, he’s not afraid to share; Black is currently on tour talking about the things that bother him in life with a series of thought-provoking diatribes.

“What angers me is what I pursue as a comic,” Black says. “Politics has always enraged me, and the older I get the more enraged I become. I spent a long time being broke, I was really, really broke, and every four years you go, ‘Can they get more out of touch?’”

On Saturday, Feb. 23, Black will bring his standup act to The Palace Theatre in Stamford for a night guaranteed to bring laughter. With a show entitled, “The Rant is Due,” the veteran Daily Show “Back in Black” commentator has a new show and a whole new rant.

He’ll talk about Lance Armstrong: “When I decide to talk about something in my show, I have to decide if it has traction. Now that he’s confessed, I can tell my Lance Armstrong stories,” Black says. “He won seven Tours and beat cancer and has this amazing body, but he can't control his ego.”

There will be commentary about people’s obsession with the social networking site Facebook: “The world is on this when we should be paying attention to something else, no one pays attention anymore,” he said. “It all started when the remote was invented and people stopped having to get up to change the channels.”

Of course, he’ll rant about politics as the comedian says he’s angry about the nation’s troubles and that nothing is getting done: “What’s interesting is it becomes clearer and clearer that these people don’t do their jobs. For a long time you went, ‘Wow, nothing’s getting done but nobody’s bothering you.’ Now they’re bothering us and nothing’s getting done.”

Then there will be fun topics like social security, health care and the fiscal cliff.

Black was born in Washington D.C. and raised in a nearby Maryland suburb. His mother, a teacher, and his father, a mechanical engineer, instilled in Black the importance of education and the necessity to question authority; lessons which have influenced him throughout his private and professional life.

Black started in the business as a playwright, penning more than 40 plays in his time. At the young age of 12, Black developed a love for the theatre and he decided then that it was the path he wanted to take.

He attended the University of North Carolina and Yale Drama School, venturing into standup while a student.

“I saw a lot of plays when I was a kid,” he says. “I saw every major musical, ‘Hello Dolly,’ ‘My Fair Lady.’ I saw Tom Poston on stage, who was great in a rather mediocre comedy. I went to tons of theater and that had a completely different influence on me than the standup world.”

After graduating, Black became the playwright-in-residence at the West Bank Café’s Downstairs Theatre Bar in New York City and oversaw the development of more than 1,000 plays, including works by Aaron Sorkin, Alan Ball and his own productions.

Black left the West Bank in the late ’80s to pursue stand-up full time, but he never stopped writing.

In addition to his successful career in the theatre, Black stays busy as a regular guest on late-night, daytime and news talk shows, has written three best-selling books—“Nothing’s Sacred,” “Me of Little Faith” and “I’m Dreaming of a Black Christmas,” and has starred in TV specials and appeared in feature films such as “Man of the Year.”

“I have more stuff going on but I can’t talk about them — such as a voice in a new Pixar movie — but I’m supposed to stay quiet,” he says. “I’ll be on the road for a while and letting people know what I think. That’s what I do.”

Lewis Black will perform at the Stamford Center of the Arts’ Palace Theatre at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23. Tickets range from $45-$65.